I don't do collectibles, but I couldn't resist this one. Way before I ever got to see the movie (The Day the Earth Stood Still), I was familiar with this image from the old Science Fiction Book Club ads.



"Now, Rocket USA releases a 5" solid die-cast metal depiction of Gort. Finished in a soft silver paint, this is a good representation of the stoic robotic policeman. Gort comes packaged in a small window display box with opening flap revealing the robot standing firm inside."

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue306/cool.html

http://www.universalfun.com/dprod/?pid=1081

:)

P.S. Got my Gort statuette in the mail today. The little sucker weighs about 2 pounds! Would make a great "Oscar" for SF movies. Or a nice paperweight.

For those of you into subliminal symbolism check out this rather interesting site regarding the movie that Gort appeared in:

*http://www.blather.net/archives2/issue2no21.html

:)

/JD

If you are a fan of this movie, here are a couple of great web pages w photos, sound clips, scripts, original story ("Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates), etc. --

*http://www.dreamerwww.com/tdtess.htm (highly recommended)

*http://members.yourlink.net/jgerard/gort/index.html

Also the movie was recently released on region1 DVD w commentary by director Robert Wise. (~$15 at Amazon).